I’m starting to understand how little purchase the truth actually affords us in this world. - Kate Coyle

Bless him”—the Messiah raises a shiny copy of the New Apocalypse Edition of the Book of Frick—“for leaving us this miraculous book, this new edition of his Holy Word, available for only nineteen ninety-nine at Church of America megastores worldwide.

How many simple pleasures I denied myself, because I thought that’s what goodness was. How stupid that it took me until the end of the world to realize it was something else entirely.

That's part of the prophecy of the Rapture, right? The dead will rise and crash our parties?"
He laughs. "Do you really think that's a priority, for the reanimated corpses?"
"Absolutely," I say. "No French onion dip in purgatory.